Cacahoatán is a

city A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ...

and one of the 122

Municipalities of Chiapas Chiapas is a state in Southwest Mexico. According to the 2020 Mexican Census, it has the eighth largest population of all states with inhabitants and the 10th largest by land area spanning . Chiapas is officially divided into 124 municipalities, ...

, in southern

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. It covers an area of 173.9 km². As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 43,811, up from 39,033 as of 2005. As of 2010, the city of Cacahoatán had a population of 16,572. Other than the city of Cacahoatán, the municipality had 112 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were:

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(2,555), classified as urban, and

Faja de Oro SS ''Faja de Oro'' ("Strip of Gold", which is a petroleum rich area in Mexico) was an oil tanker built in 1914. She sailed for a number of companies, and survived service in the First World War, only to be torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine ...

(2,356), Agustín de Iturbide (2,211), Unión Roja (1,829), Ahuacatlán (1,583), Mixcum (1,502),

Benito Juárez Benito Pablo Juárez García (; 21 March 1806 – 18 July 1872) was a Mexican liberal politician and lawyer who served as the 26th president of Mexico from 1858 until his death in office in 1872. As a Zapotec, he was the first indigenous pre ...

(1,473), and El Águila (1,274), classified as rural.

Climate

Cacahoatán has a

tropical monsoon climate An area of tropical monsoon climate (occasionally known as a sub-equatorial, tropical wet climate or a tropical monsoon and trade-wind littoral climate) is a tropical climate sub-type that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification category ...

with moderate to little rainfall from December to March and heavy to very heavy rainfall from April to November with extremely heavy rainfall in June and September. It is the wettest significant Mexican city.

References

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